Stephen J. Brooks FRES (born before 1976) is a British entomologist working at the Natural History Museum, London. He attended the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by whom he was awarded BSc in zoology (1976) and MSc in public health engineering (1977). In 1979, he was appointed Assistant Scientific Officer in the Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum. He was subsequently promoted to Scientific Officer (1985), Higher Scientific Officer (1989), Senior Scientific Officer (1995), and to Research Entomologist (2001) in the Life Sciences Department (Insects).